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A culinary expedition
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Shoba Narayan on her gourmet experience and writing
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT Shoba Narayan PHOTO: R.SHIVAJI RAO
Shoba Narayan, culinary writer, best known as the author of Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes, says she isn't a great cook but that doesn't stop her from enjoying cuisines and writing about them.
Dwelling on the many aspects of writing biographies, she used Monsoon Diary... as a focal point and made it clear that most biographies are not just about everything that happens in one's life. Editing and selecting the most interesting episodes played an important role.
Shoba underlined how her travels across India, the United States and Singapore influenced and exposed her to an assortment of food and cooking methods. Being a South Indian meant there was sambar and rasam at home but school was a true multi-ethnic experience.
A person with diverse interests, she studied psychology, majored in Fine Arts, studied alternative medicine and nearly became an acupuncturist before establishing herself as a writer for journals as varied as The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and Condenast Traveller.
Winning the James Beard Foundation's M.F.K. Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, considered the most prestigious food-writing award in the U.S., for her story The God of Small Feasts, which appeared in Gourmet's January 2000 issue was a turning point.
PAROMITA PAIN
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